WHY GERMANY IS DOING BETTER

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Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with John Kampfner

WHY GERMANY IS DOING BETTER
A British view of Germany in 2021

While the title of John Kampfer'S new book might make Germans cringe and Austrians frown, the British author has set out to analyse what makes a modern European country successful.

“Why Germany does it better - notes from a grown-up country” received huge attention in Britain when it was published last fall. At a time when Britain pulled away from the EU trying to overcome an identity crisis as former Empire with dreams of English exceptionalism and Global Britain Kampfner views Germany as a model democracy, a nation that overcame its disastrous errors during the Third Reich by rebuilding a country based on democratic values by being embedded in the union of European nations.

"Why Germany is doing better. A judgemental view from the outside.", translated by Barbara Steckhan & Thomas Wollermann will be published in German by Rowohlt on 21 April 2021. ISBN: 978-3-498-00251-0

John Kampfner  is a satirical author, broadcaster and commentator living in London. He started his career as foreign correspondent for Reuters in Moscow and Bonn watching the wall in Berlin 1989 and Soviet communism fall in 1991 in Russia. He was the editor fo the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008 and was chief executive of the freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship from 2008 to 2012. He now is a columnist at The Times.

Tessa Szyszkowitz, Historian, Journalist and Author; UK-Correspondent for PROFILE, Butterfly and Cicero. She is also Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute in London.